Bioprospecting and its Discontents: Indigenous Resistances as Legitimate Politics

Takeshita, Chikako

doi:10.1177/030437540102600302

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“…When it is extracted from its context by being forced to traverse other knowledge domains, it is often de-contextualised. As such, Takeshita (2001) states that “Indigenous knowledge of medicinal plants is often complexly embedded in the local healing practices and belief systems” (p. 272). Therefore, Indigenous knowledge, especially relating to medicine or plant use, is “embedded in beliefs about life, death, disease, healing, and ancestral heritage, and are anchored in the peoples’ cultural identity” (Takeshita, 2001, p. 272).…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

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Tracing the curation of Indigenous knowledge in a biopiracy case

Kapepiso

Higgs

2020

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

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This study presents a constructivist grounded theory study of curation and biopiracy of the San people’s knowledge about Hoodia. The “discoveries” and records of the Hoodia species by Carl P. Thunberg, Francis Masson, as well as the recorded experience of Rudolf Marloth, led to scientific experiments and commercial trials in an attempt to develop slimming drugs. This study has identified key layers and knowledge domains that have added new layers of information and knowledge to traditional knowledge concerning the use of Hoodia for medicinal purposes. The study traces the movement of Indigenous knowledge from the San to the CSIR, from CSIR to Phytopharm, Pfizer and Unilever, through the licencing of a patent on Hoodia. An emergent theory based on the concept of palimpsest suggests that erasures of the existing traditional knowledge occurred as new layers of knowledge were added or applied.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Tracing the curation of Indigenous knowledge in a biopiracy case

Kapepiso

Higgs

2020

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

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“…Discourses are 'the broad frameworks that provide a set of assumptions and judgements to help us analyse the events of our daily lives and locate them in coherent accounts' (Goyes 2018: 14; see also Svarstad 2002). They allow or forbid ways of thinking, talking and acting (Takeshita 2001). For instance, telling a life story or presenting a group narrative will rely on terms of reference provided by discourses (e.g., Presser and Sandberg 2015; Sandberg 2006).…”

Section: A Cultural Criminology Of Green Public Policiesmentioning

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Between ‘Conservation’ and ‘Development’: The Construction of ‘Protected Nature’ and the Environmental Disenfranchisement of Indigenous Communities

Goyes

South

2019

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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Conservation and development discourses are the two main frameworks in which global debates on how to relate to nature occur. These discourses are considered as opposed; while conservation discourses argue for the maintenance of nature in its pristine state, development discourses seek to justify re-engineering spaces to give place to cities, monocultures and roads. However, both discourses have one practical consequence in common: the environmental disfranchisement of Indigenous communities. This article uses the case of the Ecuadorian Yasuní Park to show how the implementation of both conservation and development discourses ultimately disempower Indigenous communities. We use media reports and governmental statements to document the Yasuní case. A critical analysis of the dynamics behind this and other cases allows us to expose the misleading messages, the ironic consequences and the false motives involved in some conservation projects.

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“…Th e state' s continuing attempts to expropriate land and ecological resources are likely to trigger stronger indigenous demands for political autonomy. Th e "public domain" rights of the nation-state are weakened by new international pressures and by new legal regimes that defend indigenous ecosystems and challenge capitalist notions of patent rights (Brown 1998;Churchill 1991;Posey 1996;Holley 1997;Takeshita 2001).…”

Section: Counterhegemonic Resistance Against Core Ecological Dominationmentioning

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Ethnic Conflict in the Modern World-System: The Dialectics of Counter-Hegemonic Resistance in an Age of Transition

Dunaway

2003

JWSR

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This article recasts debates about the extent and causes of ethnic con?ict within the world-system framework. Ethni?cation and indigenism are inherent structural contradictions of the modern world-system, and there is the highest incidence of ethnic resistance at the peak of a hegemons ascendancy. Consequently, there has not been a dramatic increase in ethnic con?ict since the end of the Cold War. However, ethnic mobilizations pose an increased challenge to the continued functioning of the world-system during the current age of transition. Ethnic mobilizations erode the capitalist civilizational project and increase costs to the system in ways that exacerbate the growing pro?t squeeze. I identify ?ve ways in which the counter-hegemonic mobilizations of ethnic minorities are costly to the world-system and can push it toward bifurcation and transformation.

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Bioprospecting and its Discontents: Indigenous Resistances as Legitimate Politics

Cited by 18 publications

References 6 publications

Tracing the curation of Indigenous knowledge in a biopiracy case

Tracing the curation of Indigenous knowledge in a biopiracy case

Between ‘Conservation’ and ‘Development’: The Construction of ‘Protected Nature’ and the Environmental Disenfranchisement of Indigenous Communities

Ethnic Conflict in the Modern World-System: The Dialectics of Counter-Hegemonic Resistance in an Age of Transition

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